San Antonio College Library

Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

"In Rights from Wrongs, renowned legal scholar Alan Dershowitz puts forward a wholly new and compelling answer to one of the most persistent dilemmas in both law and moral philosophy: where do our rights come from? Does something called "natural law" really exist outside of what is written in constitutions and legal statutes? If so, how can we know what this law says, and why are rights not the same everywhere and in all eras?" "In this book, Dershowitz...

"Mark Sidel takes us behind the headlines to reveal how key provisions of controversial antiterror policies have been buried in state legislation, and how the military has taken over key police functions. Sidel discusses the continuing debates on antiterror law in the crucial states of New York, California, and Michigan, and explains how the military - through an informant program known as "Eagle Eyes"--Is now taking a direct hand in domestic antiterror...

"The Civil Rights Movement warrants continuing and extensive examination. The six papers in this collection, each supplemented by a follow-up assessment, contribute to a clearer perception of what caused and motivated the movement, of how it functioned, of the changes that occurred within it, and of its accomplishments and shortcomings. Its profound effect upon modern America has so greatly changed relations between the races that C. Vann Woodward...

Annotation. From civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy to the 1735 free speech case of John Peter Zenger, this encyclopedia offers some 600 entries on issues, events, organizations, cases, and individuals related to civil and minority rights throughout U.S. history. Although particular attention is paid to the political status of ethnic minorities, minority is defined here as denoting any group at odds with prevailing economic or politically dominant...

The most dramatic change in American society in the last forty years has been the explosive growth of personal rights, a veritable "rights revolution" that is perceived by both conservatives and liberals as a threat to traditional values and our sense of community. Is it possible that our pursuit of personal rights is driving our country toward moral collapse? In The rights revolution, Samuel Walker answers this question with an emphatic no. The "rights...

Thirteen distinguished attorneys, analysts, and activists offer a thought-provoking critique of the Justice Department's assault on American civil liberties, offering a series of essays by David Cole, Michael Tomasky, Nancy Chang, Kenneth Roth, and Anthony Romero, among others that examine fundamental threats to the freedoms we take for granted.

The right to remain silent, guaranteed by the famed Fifth Amendment case, Miranda v. Arizona, is perhaps one of the most easily recognized and oft-quoted constitutional rights in American culture. Yet despite its ubiquity, there is widespread misunderstanding about the right and the protections promised under the Fifth Amendment. In this book, the author a legal scholar reveals precisely why our Fifth Amendment rights matter and how they are being...

"Since September 11, 2001, much has been said about the difficult balancing act between freedom and security, but few have made specific proposals for how to strike that balance. As the scandals over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib and the "torture memos" written by legal officials in the Bush administration show, without clear rules in place, things can very easily go very wrong." "With this challenge in mind, Philip Heymann and Juliette...

Behnken examines the history of both the African American and Mexican American civil rights struggles in Texas, exploring the racial prejudices, cultural dissimilarities, class tensions, organizational differences, and geographical distance that all worked to create two separate civil rights movements.